Introducing VirtualWisdom 5 and the Industry's First NAS Performance Probe

Welcome Virtual Intelligence Briefing Readers!

We’re excited to announce our release of the Virtual Instruments NAS Performance Probe! VirtualWisdom5 is the industry’s first & only vendor-independent, cross-domain infrastructure performance monitoring and analytics platform providing real-time VM to storage visibility for both SAN and NAS environments. Through unique correlation of performance data across the open-systems stack, customers benefit from their peers in the form of collective best practices baked-into our Applied Analytics—providing actionable insights and enabling authoritative, data-informed collaboration for server/virtualization and storage teams responsible for guaranteeing performance. The new NAS Performance Probe enables you to proactively avoid problems, but when they do occur, it also enables fast/accurate identification and remediation of:

Metadata Bottlenecks

Rogue Clients & Noisy Neighbor issues

Server/VM Latency issues

Poor Write Performance

Cluster Node Bottlenecks

View the Resources section on the right to request a demo or find additional information.

Turning Data into Answers

The VirtualWisdom platform provides insights into the performance, availability, health and utilization of your storage infrastructure–across physical, virtual, and cloud environments. This out-of-band solution intelligently correlates and analyzes an unmatched breadth and depth of data via agentless software probes and purpose-built hardware devices that collect wire-data. The platform intelligently persists, correlates, and analyzes an unmatched breadth and depth of data, transforming it into answers and actionable insights – something that no other monitoring solution can do.

Introducing ProbeNAS – Our NAS Performance Probe

The VirtualWisdom NAS Performance Probe (ProbeNAS) is the industry’s most complete, real-time, full line-rate monitoring solution for NFSv3 environments. Working completely out-of-band, the NAS Performance Probe analyzes every IP Packet on monitored NAS ports, and reports hundreds of metrics every second to provide comprehensive, accurate, and vendor agnostic monitoring at the protocol level. The Probe is offered in a 2U chassis with up to 16 x 10GE links.

About Virtual Instruments

Virtual Instruments is the leader in infrastructure performance analytics and provides comprehensive infrastructure instrumentation and workload analytics for enterprise data centers. The company’s solutions give IT teams deep workload visibility and actionable insights into their end-to-end systems across cloud, virtual and physical environments. Virtual Instruments empowers companies to more easily evaluate and transition to new storage architectures and maximize the performance, availability and utilization of their production IT infrastructure. Recently merged with Load DynamiX, Virtual Instruments has nearly 500 customers, including enterprise IT, cloud service providers and storage vendors. The privately held company is headquartered in San Jose, Calif.